Category Archives: singing in concerts

Tribulation

Posted on April 20, 2007 by vhk10

The St. Matthew Passion wasn’t the only choral work I performed for the first time in Holy Week. On Good Friday I went over to Oxford to sing in a scratch performance of Rossini’s Stabat Mater at St. Giles’s Church … Continue reading →

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the Chorus Angelorum

Posted on April 4, 2007 by vhk10

This was the name of the choir assembled to sing a big performance (really, there is no other kind) of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in Bath Abbey tonight under the direction of Gavin Carr and accompanied by the English Chamber … Continue reading →

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G’s and Z’s

Posted on March 27, 2007 by vhk10

Plenty of these in the name of one of the composers in the most recent Chandos Singers concert: Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki, whose Conductus (an assortment of settings of mostly funerary texts) we performed. The other substantial single piece was Lalande’s … Continue reading →

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a holding message

Posted on March 20, 2007 by vhk10

Due to a lack of suitable lunchtimes I haven’t had much chance to write new entries recently. It’s not that I’m losing interest. Over the next few weeks I hope to cover: the latest Chandos Singers concert a performance of … Continue reading →

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a concert on Second Avenue

Posted on December 5, 2006 by vhk10

No, I wasn’t back in New York, and strictly speaking it took place just off Second Avenue in Oldfield Park. The introduction to Charpentier’s Te Deum is very well known to me from countless weddings and as the call signal … Continue reading →

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Lætentur cœli – but not set by Byrd

Posted on November 28, 2006 by vhk10

This time the words come from Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio, which I’m singing on Saturday with the Chandos Singers. Meanwhile, I sang at a concert of anthems with St. Mary’s Bathwick choir in Acton Turville, a place with a connexion to … Continue reading →

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a double dose of Elgar and Purcell

Posted on May 21, 2006 by vhk10

A busy weekend of concerts recently. On Saturday night I sang in a concert in Reading with the Erleigh Cantors. The main work was a repeat performance (from Exeter) of Kodály’s Missa Brevis but singing first soprano this time (which … Continue reading →

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two concerts for Holy Week

Posted on April 15, 2006 by vhk10

I’d been meaning to go to an Exultate Singers concert for a while, and missed a couple including one with a new cantata to commemorate Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s anniversary. I hope that this contained lots of suspensions, especially as it … Continue reading →

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après l’entracte, le Déluge

Posted on December 9, 2005 by vhk10

Last Saturday I joined the Chandos Singers again for a programme of French (composer or language) secular music (nice to have a concert in December that isn’t taken over by Christmas). I’d never sung any of it before. I say … Continue reading →

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what’s the choir called?

Posted on December 2, 2005 by vhk10

From time to time I’m recruited to a performance at a sufficiently late stage that I don’t find out the name of the group I’m singing with till the day! This happened last Saturday when I joined the Marshfield Bach … Continue reading →

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two new composers

Posted on July 8, 2005 by vhk10

There are by my reckoning few major composers whose music I’ve never performed in public. Many of them are Eastern European, and I was able to fill one glaring gap last weekend by singing some Janacek with the Chandos Singers. … Continue reading →

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an unprepared dissonance

Posted on January 28, 2005 by vhk10

Last weekend I was performing on my home territory with Bath Baroque. The first half of the programme was all-Handel, with a new piece to me, the Birthday Ode for Queen Anne, which was very enjoyable as long as you … Continue reading →

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